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So, you’re new to running, you see a lot of acronyms, a lot of jargon, that’s slang if you’re not familiar with that term, and you’re wondering what the heck do all these things mean? Well, that’s what we’re going to cover today on this episode of Runner’s High.

I always say cycling saved me. I was the most non-sportive kid you could imagine. I was a chubby boy. I was lost in my view. And I picked up cycling I think just because it was the one thing I didn’t have to excel at to be picked for team sports like basketball, soccer, ...

You may think because you’re a runner, all you need to do is run. And generally speaking, you’re pretty right. Going out to run is going to make you a better runner. But it’s not the only thing you can do. And especially if your time crunched, not the only thing you can ...

Where you live has a big effect on where you decide to go run. If you live in the middle of downtown Chicago, you may be running down the Riverwalk, as I saw people when I made a trip to Chicago. 

On TV, live and in person during the TV promotion, I lost focus. I was on a teeter totter. I was going up the big ramp and I lost focus and fell off of the teeter totter and cracked my C1 in half and had spinal cord injury four, five, which is just below — C1 is, they ca...

So, you’ve been doing everything right. Your training plan is on point, you’ve been sleeping enough, you think you’re eating plenty so you should have energy, but you just don’t feel good.

So, you want to get into running, but you actually hate it. That means you’ve probably never seen me, never been on this channel before. But I’m Jesse Funk. This is a show I call a Runner’s High where we talk about everything running.

A, I think when you’re young, you’re just a rubber band. So, you’re not getting injured as much and your lighter. So, one fall can affect a kid differently than it would an adult if they fall in the same way.

Would you consider yourself old? I certainly wouldn’t consider myself old yet as I’m in my early 30s. But I am looking forward into older age and trying to think about, can I keep running?

A number of times on this channel I’ve mentioned that running is really a social activity. And it’s great to find a group or a club or a team or friends, somebody you can run with, to make your run more enjoyable, keep you more consistent.